Maren Morris Boasts Most-Played Hit with “I Could Use a Love Song”

Never imbued with a frontier mentality when it came to cold weather, Nashville and Music Row virtually hibernated this week when confronted with snowfall approaching two inches and temperature dipping as low as 7° F.

Nonetheless, the charts kept on charting, and here’s what we had.

Kane Brown’s self-titled album kept its No. 1 hold on Billboard’s country albums rankings, and Maren Morris moved in to top the most-played country song chart with “I Could Use a Love Song.” It had spent the past 44 weeks inching toward the summit.

Those of us who caught Morris’ performance at last year’s New Face Show — the finale of the annual Country Radio Seminar — recall her introducing the song to great applause.

There are no new or returning albums in this week’s Top 25, but we do note two new songs: Dan + Shay’s “Tequila,” which enters at No. 35, and Brothers Osborne’s “Shoot Me Straight,” bowing at No. 59.

Drew Baldridge’s “Guns & Roses” returns to action at No. 60. Rounding out the Top 5 albums, in descending order, are Thomas Rhett’s Life Changes, Chris Stapleton’s From a Room: Volume 2 and Traveller and Luke Bryan’s What Makes You Country.